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1 Proposal: number 181

181. ENGL 153/153W: Introduction to the Bible

Contact:

E. Gordon Whatley

Abstract:

One of historyХs richest and most influential documentary sources ofreligious belief and practice, and of ethical and cultural values, is theJudeo-Christian Bible. It constitutes a challenging but stimulating and diversebody of material for exploring how religious beliefs, ethical values and moralchoices are expressed both overtly in the form of laws, precepts, propheciesand parables, or are encoded or implied in copiously varied narrative form andrichly meaningful Тstory.У To study biblical narrative critically andhistorically engages students, at the most fundamental level, with the study ofТculture and values.У English 153 introduces the student to the Bible(both the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament) and to some of the literary andcultural methods and approaches used to study it today. The texts, composedover many hundreds of years, were written and redacted to reflect the shiftingcultural situations and values of their storytellers and editors, situations wecan reconstruct with the aid of the texts themselves. We shall be readingnarratives, prophecies, poetry, wisdom literature and religious doctrine. Aswe read these texts we shall be thinking about how the Biblical texts mighthave come into being and been transmitted; the kinds of cultural andsociopolitical roles they might have played in their original contexts; howthey attempt to move or affect their audiences, how various readers haveresponded and reacted to them; how they work as stories and poems; and how theyhave been taken up into the literary and cultural traditions of the West, andreinterpreted, used as the bases of literary texts by such writers as Milton,Melville, Morrison.